“Paul Manafort indirectly advised Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign while in home confinement as part of a seven-year sentence for offenses including tax fraud – advice he kept secret as he hoped for a presidential pardon,” The Guardian reports.
Said Manafort: “I didn’t want anything to get in the way of the president’s re-election or, importantly, a potential pardon.”
He added: “There was no contact with anyone in the Trump orbit when I was in prison… But when the re-election campaign started kicking off, I was interacting, unofficially, with friends of mine who were very involved. It was killing me not to be there, but I was advising indirectly from my condo.”
The startling admission is spelled out in Political Prisoner: Persecuted, Prosecuted, but Not Silenced, a memoir that will be published next month.
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